RUSSIA: CONVICTED U.S. SPY EDMOND POPE FREED FROM PRISON AFTER RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VALDIMIR PUTIN GIVES PARDON

Record ID: 648493

  • Title: RUSSIA: CONVICTED U.S. SPY EDMOND POPE FREED FROM PRISON AFTER RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VALDIMIR PUTIN GIVES PARDON
  • Date: 14th December 2000
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (DECEMBER 14, 2000) (REUTERS -ACCESS ALL) 1. WS/MV/SLV: EMBASSY VEHICLES CARS APPROACHING LEFORTOVO PRISON AND DRIVING THROUGH PRISON GATES (3 SHOTS) 0.23 2. SV/SCU: POPE'S WIFE SHERIL LEAD TO CAR/ POPE INSIDE CAR (2 SHOTS) 0.40 3. MV: PRISON GATES CLOSING 0.50 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 19, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 4. SV: EDMOND POPE IN COURTROOM BEHIND BARS 0.55 5. SV: POPE'S LAWYER PAVEL ASTAKHOV 0.59 6. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) CONVICTED SPY EDMOND POPE "The nature of my cancer , the longer we're here the greater the danger of a problem. I need proper care, I need somebody who is qualified and understands the type of cancer that I have been threatened by." 1.18 7. MV: EDMOND POPE BEING LED OUT OF COURTROOM 1.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 29th December 2000 12:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVACNA51S1ZWNR7RIQH9MPAN69BW
  • Story Text: Convicted U.S spy Edmond Pope has been pardoned by
    Russian President Vladimir Putin and released from prison.


    President Putin pardoned convicted former U.S spy
    Edmond Pope on Thursday (December 14).

    Putin's decree, read out to Reuters by a Kremlin
    spokesman, said Pope had been pardoned on health reasons and
    because of the importance of U.S.-Russian relations. Pope, 54,
    suffers from a rare form of cancer.

    Pope's wife Cheri arrived at the Lefortovo jail on
    Thursday morning in a U.S. diplomatic vehicle and was
    immediately whisked inside the prison.

    The American businessman and former naval intelligence
    officer, was convicted last week of espionage by a Russian
    judge and convicted to 20 years of hard labour.
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